1. romeo and juliet is fictional

2. the 1996 film romeo and juliet was not the first film adaptation of william shakespeare's play

3. romeo and juliet is not a movie; it’s a play

4. francesca is not the first black woman to play juliet

5. the first juliet was played by a man

Talking down our country you say?

Let’s take a look at the people who’ve actually been talking down our country and our great British institutions….

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Exciting new podcast from #TheCrowhillCompany go check it (with a wonderful special guest) ;) youtu.be/-Mlf7FxJ6_E?si…

Word fact of the day: ‘penguin’ is one of the few words in the dictionary of Welsh origin: it comes from ‘pen gwyn’, ‘white head’.

(And a reminder that penguins were also once known affectionately as ‘arsefeet’.)

Applejuiceification and the illusion of choice: a short thread

15 April Scottish Music Centre member Lewis Coenen-Rowe presents My apologies for the noise, a solo piano concert featuring music about apologies and train stations at Old Hairdresser's Glasgow tickets £8 general / £4 concession/£0 ➡ outsavvy.com/event/18532/my… ➡ scottishmusiccentre.com/lewis-coenen-r…

Also this is v nice, folks at UkeHunt are class - thanks for including me✨

A giant iceberg, more than 20 times the size of Manhattan, just split off from Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf: buff.ly/4c5A1Al

No time to wait. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #go100re

Just astonishing.

In just 3 days, the Smokehouse Creek Fire has burned more than one million acres - including half a million acres in the first 24 hours.

Already the 2nd biggest in US history, but expect more to come.

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m…

6:25 pm in #Kyiv

Some time ago, I mentioned that I would share my opinion about why many new bookstores were being opened during the full-scale war in Kyiv.

It will be my opinion (not an official or expert version; I am not a professor, you know😉).

1. Before the full-scale…

For your Monday morning listening pleasure 💚 My version of John Lennon’s Hold On in a snowdrop glade - realeased, I didn’t realise, on Yoko Ono’s 91st birthday yesterday ✨ youtu.be/3e2mPb2iBLE?si…

Wandered the edge of a blustery beach, traversed uneven rock pools and mossy dunes, along a muddy path, to a lovely gate provided, then finally over a dry stone wall to sit amongst a meadow of snowdrops... hold on world, you're gonna see the light x youtu.be/3e2mPb2iBLE

The #SuperBowl is all well and good.

But superb owls >>>

Owl enthusiasts, unite. 🦉

110 hostages were released via ceasefire. It took 120+ days, 13k dead Palestinian children & at least 5 hostages killed by the IDF for you to rescue 2.

‘Seijaku’, from Japanese, describes tranquillity in the midst of chaos; a stillness and calm even when the world seems mad.

You might find it in ‘apricity’: the warmth of the sun on a winter’s day.

There is no climate justice without ensuring that there is food justice.

The climate crisis is a food crisis.

If you feel the need to decompress after reading the Day in the Life of Gregg Wallace, may I remind you of this masterpiece by Tom Hollander. Entertaining for completely opposite reasons.

Last week Rasha Abdul-Rahim 🇵🇸 (on maternity leave) and I welcomed our second son, Emrys, into the world.

My heart is so full, while also so broken as I think of the pain of parents in Gaza and the suffering inflicted on their children. It's hard to express or reconcile these feelings. Life is so precious.